Marie Laure Richert, born in Alsatia and a Venetian of adoption, is closer to Miro’s imagination than to Klee’s spirit or Gorky’s fantastic chromatism, although of the great Armenian who died in New York she recalls the freedom of signs and the arabesque lines that strive to escape any forced realism. Her lyrical inspiration is expressed in large, white pictures through a deliberately essential technique that avoids spectacular effects. Her fables contain a very sensitive human drive and each theme vibrates in a texture of refined humour. Is it fable or sweet captivating irony? Her airy, softened, rarefied language shares in the features of an oriental-tasting watercolour, whereas its graphic layout is pure western invention with hints from northern sagas. A language that beautifully expresses her imaginative power triggered by almost trivial events: a performance at La Fenice, animals, Venetian views, flowers. And yet, what a wealth of colours, what a wish for roaming freely in the sky to pursue dreams of lost paradise.

“There, on the beach, she gathers multicoloured pieces of wood that the sea has brought ashore from the boats or the water houses occupied by most of the inhabitants of Brunei’s capital, Bandar Seri Begawan; multicoloured pieces of wood and of net gathered on the beach. Nothing has got to be wasted. In this triumph of recovery, she strives for an aesthetic harmony of forms and colours to prove that her absence from Venice could be the source of a new dimension with unexpected artistic veins.”
Borneo 1991

1977 ‘Quadragono Arte’, Conegliano.
1981 A voyage from Palermo to Santa Cruz of Tenerife from 8th to 25 November on S/Y STORMVOGEL.
1982 Patchworks for Cooperativa teatro lavoro:’Il reduce’, Teatro Comunale Goldoni, Venice.
1983 During the Carnival of Venice she exhibits: Créations patchwork-étendards in the Venetian ‘calli’.
Quadragonoarte, Conegliano.
1988 Illustration of texts of the review ‘Il Caffè delle Lettere e delle Arti’, Anno II, n.6, Piovan Editore.
1990 Attaché of the French Embassy in Brunei at Bandar Seri Begawan.
1991 She takes part in an exhibition set up by Sultan Bolkiah’s first wife with watercolours inspired
by Brunei’s primitive forest.